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Egypt’s annual inflation rate rose to 13.5% in March from 11.5% in February, driven by higher food and transport costs, according to CAPMAS.<\/p>\n
Consumer prices increased 3.3% month-on-month, with the consumer price index reaching 284.4 points. The rise reflects broad-based price increases across key sectors.<\/p>\n
Food and beverage prices climbed 5.2% during the month, led by a 21.8% increase in vegetable prices. Meat and poultry rose 5.9%, while fruit prices increased 2.0%.<\/p>\n
\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Egypt’s annual inflation rate rose to 13.5% in March from 11.5% in February, driven by higher food and transport costs, according to CAPMAS. Consumer prices increased 3.3% month-on-month, with the consumer price index reaching 284.4 points. The rise reflects broad-based price increases across key sectors. Food and beverage prices climbed 5.2% during the month, led […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":230348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,11509,4697,415,5074,6265,17097,257,254,8343],"class_list":["post-230347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-costs","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-food","tag-inflation","tag-jumps","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-transport"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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